Resizing tiles

Your Start menu can become crowded with tiles as you continue to add apps to it. One way to relieve the clutter and view more tiles in the menu is to reduce the size of some tiles. You might also want to enlarge a tile that you want to more easily find. There are four sizes for tiles: Small, Medium, Wide, and Large.

Change tile size

You might have noticed that some tiles have specific content such as a news story displayed on them, whereas others only sport a solid background and an icon. Tiles with content in them are called live tiles. If the live content in a tile distracts you, right-click that app tile in the Start menu, and then, in the shortcut menu that opens, choose Turn Live Tile Off.